Professional recognition - List of professions

Here you can get information on the legal steps and the public authorities to be borne in mind in connection with the recognition of your professional qualifications. The individual regulated professions are assigned to groups of professions.

A regulated profession is any profession requiring evidence of certain competences: education and training and/or professional experience.

Sensitive professions are professions containing health and/or safety risks. These professions are subject to qualification verification even in case of temporary service provision.

You can apply for a European professional card in some professions.

Education, childcare and pedagogy: Teachers at Academic Secondary Schools; Teachers at General Compulsory Schools; Teachers at Part-time Vocational Schools; Teachers at VET Schools and Colleges
Forestry and agriculture professions: Forest Assistant - Sensitive Profession; Forest Engineer - Sensitive Profession; Forest Warden; Forester - Sensitive Profession; Inseminator; Inseminator of one's own livestock; Junior Forest Official - - Sensitive Profession
Healthcare professions: Anaesthetic nursing - Sensitive Profession; Assistant Nurses; Assistent prosector; Biomedical analysts - Sensitive Profession; Care professional assistant; Dental Assistance; Dental Practitioners; Desinfection assistant; Dieticians - Sensitive Profession; Doctor´s surgery assistant; First-/Second-level Emergency Medical Technicians; Healthcare Psychologist - Sensitive Profession; Healthcare/Clinical Psychologists - Temporary Services - Sensitive Profession; Hospital Hygiene - Sensitive Profession; Intensive care - Sensitive Profession; Intensive paediatric care - Sensitive Profession; Laboratory assistant; Medical Masseur - Sensitive Profession; Midwive; Music Therapist - Sensitive Profession; Nurse Responsible for General Care; Nursing Care - hospice and palliative care; Nursing Care - Managerial tasks - Sensitive Profession; Nursing Care - psychogeriatric nursing; Nursing Care - Teaching Tasks - Sensitive Profession; Nursing Care - wound management and stoma care; Occupational therapists - Sensitive Profession; Operating theatre assistant; Orthoptists; Paediatric nursing - Sensitive Profession; Pharmacists; Physiotherapists - Sensitive Profession; Plastering assistant; Prophylaxis assistants; Psychiatric nursing - Sensitive Profession; Psychotherapist - Sensitive Profession; Qualified Cardio-Technicians/Perfusionist - - Sensitive Profession; Radiological technologists - Sensitive Profession; Radiology assistant; Renal nursing - Sensitive Profession; Specialised doctor; Speech therapists - Sensitive Profession; Surgical nursing - Sensitive Profession; Therapeutic Masseur - Sensitive Profession
Liberal professions: Architect
Regulated businesses or trades: baker; blasting contractor - Sensitive Profession; boat bilder; bookbinder; brass instrument maker; butcher; cabinet maker; car body construction and painting technician; ceramicist; chemical laboratories - Sensitive Profession; chemist - Sensitive Profession; chimney sweep - Sensitive Profession; cleaning of monuments facades and buildings; communications electronics; consulting; consulting engineers - Sensitive Profession; contact lens optician - Sensitive Profession; cooper; coppersmith; corset-making; cosmetics (beauty care) - Sensitive Profession; dairy technology; debt-collecting institutes; dental technician - Sensitive Profession; electrical engineering - Sensitive Profession; flooring installer; florist; foot care - Sensitive Profession; forwarding agent including shipping agents; furrier; gardener; gas and sanitary engineering - Sensitive Profession; glass-blowing and manufacture of glass apparatus; glazier glass-facing work and plate-glass polishing - Sensitive Profession; gold and silversmith; gold plater and decorator; gold/silver/metal beater; grain miller; gunmaker (gunsmith) including trade in arms - Sensitive Profession; hair dresser and wig maker (stylist); harmonica maker; hearing-aid acoustics - Sensitive Profession; heating engineering; hospitality industry; house painter; insurance intermediary (insurance agent, insurance broker and adviser providing insurance advice); labour leasing; lacquerer; life and social coaching - Sensitive Profession; maker of mens clothing; maker of womens clothing; manufacture of cardboard goods; manufacture of clothing and linen; manufacture of leather fashion accessories and bag making; manufacture of pyrotechnic articles as well as trading in pyrotechnic articles (pyrotechnic companies) - Sensitive Profession; manufacture of wallets cases and boxes; massage - Sensitive Profession; master builder - Sensitive Profession; master stone mason including artificial stone and terrazzo maker - Sensitive Profession; master well builder; master woodbuilder - Sensitive Profession; mechatronics technician specialising in electrical engineering and automation; mechatronics technician specialising in electronic office and EDP systems technology; mechatronics technician specialising in mechanical and production engineering; mechatronics technician specialising in medical device technology; metal design; metal technology worker specialising in agricultural machinery and construction machinery; metal technology worker specialising in forging and vehicle construction; metal technology worker specialising in metal and mechanical engineering; modeller; ophtalmic optics - Sensitive Profession; organ maker; orthopaedic shoemaker - Sensitive Profession; orthopaedic technology; paperhanger and upholsterer; pastry chef (confectioner) including gingerbread bakers and candied fruit ice cream and chocolates makers; paviour and tiler; pest control - Sensitive Profession; piano maker; plasterer and drywall fitter; plastics processing; polishing and shaping of hollow glass; printer and platemaker; producer and wholesaler of pharmaceuticals and poisons - Sensitive Profession; production and preparation as well as renting of medical devices to the extent these activities do not fall under a different regulated business or trade and trading in and renting of medical devices - Sensitive Profession; professional financial advice; prothetists and orthotists - Sensitive Profession; real estate agent; real estate trustee (real estate agent, real estate manager, building project organiser); refrigeration and air-conditioning; repair of motor vehicles - Sensitive Profession; road/street works operative; roofer; saddler including coach trimming and harness making; safety centre; safety representative; sculptor; securities broker; security sector (private investigator, security guard) - Sensitive Profession; shoemaker; signmaking; stove fitter - Sensitive Profession; string instrument maker; surface technology; tailor for leather clothing; textile cleaner (dry cleaner launderer and ironer); thermal acoustic and fire insulation; tinsmith; tourist guide; travel agencies; tyre vulcaniser/repairer; undertaking business - Sensitive Profession; ventilation technician; watchmaker/clockmaker; wood turner; wood-wind instrument maker
Sport and leisure professions: Mountain and ski guide; Mountain guide - Sensitive Profession; Operator of a ski school - Sensitive Profession; Operator of a snowboard school; Ski guide (accompanying skiers without providing instruction)

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